Credit: Christie's

Fake has built its own little universe out there. So it makes sense that Kenneth Jay Lane is hotter than ever.

Lane, a jewelry designer whose flamboyant pieces have graced the arms, necks and earlobes of famously stylish women from Jackie Kennedy to Rihanna and Gwyneth Paltrow (or from Barbara Bush to Beyonce, if you want to get real) died last year at age 85. He was unabashedly fake to the not-so-bitter end.

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